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Global Health Institute are betting on pyridomycin, a compound that was abandoned in the 1950s when the discovery of streptomycin and isoniazid led doctors to believe that control...
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New Drug Cocktail Holds Promise for Treating TB-HIV Co-Infections
Tuberculosis remains the largest killer of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Yet many HIV-positive patients who come down with the potentially lethal respiratory infection cannot be effectively treated because the separate drugs needed to fight those two diseases do not interact well or have toxic side effects when used together. VOA's Vidushi Sinha reports a combination of new drugs now is proving more effective in clinical trials both in treating TB alone, and in treating HIV patients co-infected with TB.
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